What the head of state did not say at the press conference
Vladimir Vladimirovich's answers to the annual press conference are interesting only because the theses known to everyone a thousand times are expressed directly by the president. More important are the questions that were asked, but the answer was never answered. There were three.
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The BBC correspondent who asked the question apparently really wanted the name of the opposition prisoner to be heard in the hall. And in vain, because it distracted the point considerably. And his question was really good – what has happened in Russia in the last year that the rapid and ruthless sweeping of the information and political field has begun? Remnants of non-systemic opposition are systematically cleaned up. The media and simply media personalities began to receive the label of a foreign agent in batches. (By the way, Vladimir Vladimirovich was wrong in his answer when he said that there is no prosecution of foreign agents in Russia, unlike the United States, even if it is detained.) Simply put, those who say at least something other than “Party lines.” “
So to the question: what happened? – no answer came. Although it is clear from the history that our president loves that such a sharp liberation from “internal enemies” occurs either during a weakening government or during a war (it's really bad – if both).
Vladimir Vladimirovich did not answer the question of the state Russian media, which organically supplemented the question of the British media. After a short propaganda and correct speech (quite an apologetic professional habit), Irada Zeynalová actually asked a terrible thing – were the possibilities of war miscalculated?
Putin talked about the Minsk agreements, recommended to ask the Ukrainian leadership how they can give orders to shoot at the people of Donbas … But he did not answer directly. And this lack of response, of course, contributes to understanding what is happening.
The third unanswered question was from “Russia 24” and the population did not seem to be directly concerned about whether the state would be responsible for the guarantees it gave for the loans attracted by Rusnano. Here it is clear why Putin did not give a direct answer. A little background. Rusnano, led by Chubais, has raised so many loans under state guarantees that Anatoly Borisovich boasted something like this: we really have a lot of money, chickens don't bite, we don't know what to do. And then, when creditors began to question the outcome, Chubais managed to jump ashore and is now the president's special envoy for some kind of sustainable development. And Rusnano has serious financial problems. Obviously, if Putin answered directly, it would confirm the president's thesis – revenues in Russia are private and public spending. That is why Rusnan's question concerns everyone. Because with just such an economic policy of the state, the oligarchs get richer and impoverish the population.
It is much better to talk about the socially oriented budget, growth drivers, crops and housing records. commissioning. After all, I wonder when the president is talking about this?
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